CU-Boulder police: Student made up story of attempted armed robbery

The University of Colorado Police Department ticketed a student who admitted the report he made to police about two armed men trying to rob him last month was partly made up to get attention.

According to a news release, Cullen Hart, 18, was issued a summons for false reporting to authorities, a Class 3 misdemeanor.

On Aug. 31, Hart told police that at 3 a.m. that day, two men approached him with a knife just east of Regent Drive and Broadway and demanded money. Hart at the time told police he fought off the men, getting one of them in a choke-hold and suffering a knife wound to his arm.

But further investigation revealed inconsistencies in Hart's story, according to the news release, when detectives found surveillance footage that showed Hart entering his residence hall at the time he said he was robbed.

Hart admitted that two men did approach him -- one of them with a knife -- but that they asked for money in a non-threatening way and then left the area. Hart said he got the cut on his arm on a desk in his room and lied about the details of the incident to get "attention."

CU police say they now believe no crime took place during the incident.

"We encourage any victim of a crime to immediately report it to police," said CU police Cmdr. Robert Axmacher in a statement. "Making false or inaccurate crime reports diverts resources away from investigating actual crimes and can lead to unnecessary community concern."

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